See kow on Wiktionary
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"expansion": "Beja kwo (“unit”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ha",
"2": "kowa"
},
"expansion": "Hausa kowa",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inherited from Proto-Somaloid *kow, from Proto-East Cushitic *kaww- (“alone”). Cognate with Maay koow, Garre kow, Aweer kow, Rendille kow, Oromo ko'oomuu (“be lonely”), ko'uma (“loneliness”), Konso xawwaa (“alone, separate”), Dirasha haww. Compare also Beja kwo (“unit”) and Hausa kowa.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ków",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "koow",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "so",
"2": "numeral",
"g": "f",
"head": "ków"
},
"expansion": "ków f",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"kow"
]
}
],
"lang": "Somali",
"lang_code": "so",
"pos": "num",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Dirasha terms in nonstandard scripts",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Somali cardinal numbers",
"Somali entries with incorrect language header",
"Somali lemmas",
"Somali numerals",
"Somali terms derived from Proto-Somaloid",
"Somali terms inherited from Proto-Somaloid"
],
"glosses": [
"one"
],
"links": [
[
"one",
"one"
]
],
"wikipedia": [
"Proto-East-Cushitic language"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkow/"
}
],
"word": "kow"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "Latn"
},
"expansion": "Latn",
"name": "mul-symbol/script"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "mul",
"10": "",
"2": "symbol",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "or",
"6": "",
"7": "or",
"8": "",
"9": "or",
"cat2": "",
"f1lang": "en",
"f1nolink": "",
"f2lang": "en",
"f2nolink": "",
"f3lang": "en",
"f3nolink": "",
"f4lang": "en",
"f4nolink": "",
"head": "",
"head2": "",
"head3": "",
"head4": "",
"image": "",
"nolinkhead": "",
"sc": "Latn",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "kow",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "kow",
"name": "mul-symbol"
}
],
"lang": "Translingual",
"lang_code": "mul",
"pos": "symbol",
"related": [
{
"word": "Wiktionary’s coverage of Kugama terms"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"ISO 639-3",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
"Translingual lemmas",
"Translingual symbols",
"Translingual terms with redundant script codes"
],
"glosses": [
"ISO 639-3 language code for Kugama."
],
"links": [
[
"language code",
"language code"
]
],
"qualifier": "international standards",
"raw_glosses": [
"(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kugama."
]
}
],
"word": "kow"
}
Download raw JSONL data for kow meaning in All languages combined (8.3kB)
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"called_from": "parser/328",
"msg": "TABLE not properly closed",
"path": [
"kow"
],
"section": "Cornish",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "kow",
"trace": "started on line 3, detected on line 9"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/304",
"msg": "HTML tag <div> not properly closed",
"path": [
"kow"
],
"section": "Cornish",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "kow",
"trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 9"
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: kow/Cornish 'hard' base_tags={'mutation-aspirate', 'mutation-radical', 'mutation-soft', 'mutation'}",
"path": [
"kow"
],
"section": "Cornish",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "kow",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
"path": [
"kow"
],
"section": "Cornish",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "kow",
"trace": ""
}
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